Are you letting judgment get in the way of your entrepreneurial dream?

I speak from my own personal experiences with letting judgment get in the way of my entrepreneurial dreams.

It was crippling to the growth of my business when I put more focus on the fear of what others would think, instead of focusing on the impact I could make.

What’s a midwest girl know about running a business anyway? Yep, this is a true thought that my inner voice would throw up at me when I’d get out of my comfort zone.

Embarrassment, Awkward, Worrying

The fear of judgment can make us feel embarrassed, awkward, worried and a number of other feelings that surface for us. All of these emotions get in the way of our happiness and making a true impact.

It can be difficult to overcome that little inner voice in our heads that doesn’t have the same hopes and dreams for our future. It’s okay, that voice is just worried about keeping us safe.

Stop caring what others think

Why do we care what others think so much anyway? Really, do people notice as much as we notice? Hmm, the answer is no.

Let’s face it. That same little inner voice is also always on the lookout for “What’s in it for me”

Really in our small business do we want to work with people that feel the need to judge what we do?

Shouldn’t we care more about the person that feels drawn to us? As, much as I feel the need to be loved by everyone. I know that I’m not everybody’s cup of tea. I continue to do the mindset work to be okay with that. What it all comes down to is, I want to make an impact and provide value to someone. I’ve said it before, the keyword for me is ONE.

I’m pretty sure I’ll never get over caring what other think, I’ve given myself the mindset tools to overcome the fear quicker.

I choose to no longer allow judgment to get in the way of my success. Because business is easy when I take messy imperfect action. That means that I need to emotionally release the judgers. That mindset is what empowers me to stop caring what others think.

Stop judging yourself

Ohh, this is a big one, Friend. Get clear on the items that you’re letting judgment get in the way. Okay, now how are YOU judging yourself regarding this judgment?

We are our own worst enemy. Take a look at yourself and figure out what you’re judging yourself about. Stop it.

That thing, that is getting in the way of our business success. That thing that we feel others judge us on. That’s a mirror into our own self-doubt. Think I’m off my rocker about this?

Get out your journal and I guess we’ll see how off I am. Circle back to me, Friend, tell me what did you discover.

I’ve set the goal to record a YouTube video to go along with my blog post every week. Does this feel easy yet? Heck no. But I know in time and practice, I will not feel so embarrassed, awkward, and worried about what others think.

All those feels that I listed above, are the same things that I think I’m getting judged on. Friends, I’m not foolish enough to believe that I’m not getting judge, but I’m not letting judgment get in the way of creating an impact on one person.

Your own judgments will be mirrored back to you by others. Because it is what you’re looking for, someone to prove you right.

Here is what else I have to say on the judgment.

Be confident

Live your life for yourself. Is it simple to let go of caring what others think? Heck No! Do I still have times when I let silly things keep me up at night worrying what others think? Yes, I do. Anything can seem bigger than it really is if I let my mind spiral.

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✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

Embarrassment, Awkward, Worrying emotions get in the way of our happiness and making a true impact.
I know that I’m not everybody’s cup of tea and that’s okay.
We are our own worst enemy. Take a look at yourself and figure out what you’re judging yourself about. Stop it.
Live your life for yourself, it’s your path enjoy it.

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Work Smarter Not Harder with Canned Responses

by Michele | Planning-Organization-Productivity

Work Smarter Not Harder by creating canned responses in Gmail to efficiently manage your inbox.

Work Smarter not harder by creating canned responses in Gmail to effectively manage your inbox and to easily delegate to a virtual executive assistant.

You know those questions that you receive repeatedly from prospects, clients and general inquires. It’s time to start working smarter my Friend by using a response you’ve already drafted and saving that in your canned responses in Gmail.

To get you started

Ideas on responses that you can write once and use again and again.

A list of your favorite books
A list of your favorite podcasts
A waiting list response for your group or program
A no to opportunities that you do not have time for or are not in alignment with your business
Your best advice
Affiliate or Joint Venture Information

Here is another pro-tip, create forms in Google Forms or Typeform for your waitlist, joint ventures, guest posting, podcast interviews. Anything that you’d want to gather information create the Google Form so that information can be added directly into a Google Sheet. By asking the same questions you’ll be able to compare data.

Create in a Google Document First

Copy and paste emails you’ve already written into a Canned Responses Google Document. Once you have your responses they can be saved inside of Google. The reason I suggest that you create it in a google document is that you can easily see what you’ve already done. It’s easy to share if you’d like to send them to a team member.

Walk Through

Watch the video below as I walk you through how to set up your very own canned responses in Gmail.

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Quick Recap

Create canned responses to quickly and efficiently respond to repeat emails
Write them and update them in a Google Document
Watch the video for a walkthrough on how to set up your own canned responses

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What is perfect anyway?

by Michele | Online Business

What is perfect anyway?

“It’s not perfect” my daughter exclaimed to me. My response was sometimes done is better than perfect.

Really, what is perfect?

Our idea of perfect is based on something in our heads this could be very different than the perception of what our dream client may feel is perfect. Because perfect is really a perception of the beholder. It’s different for all of us.

This got me thinking about all the undone projects that I’ve come across when onboarding new clients.

Really I'm not a fool

While I’m not foolish and know that this undone work could too have something to do with the shiny objects syndrome that so many visionaries have.

But this halt in work may have been brought on because they got hung up on something that wasn’t perfect and they stopped in the messy middle and moved on before the project was brought to completion.

In the book Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert refers to “Done is better than good.” this is something that she heard from her mother growing up. This is solid gold. Carole Gilbert understood the importance of time and that sometimes you just need to get it done, out the door, and let it go.

Why put something out that is not what you feel is perfect? Again, I’ll ask what is perfect anyway. When a done but not a perfect course or service is put out into the world it will allow you to gather data and establish a benchmark. Oh man, I love me some benchmarks.

This is why you’ll see online business owners putting out beta courses or services. They are asking people to come along for the ride with them. This is really a fantastic way to make sure that you’re providing your dream client with what they really want. Cus’ sometimes that vision in our head of what we think they want and what they really want are two totally different things.

Circling back around to what is perfect anyway. If you spent all your valuable time working to achieve your perception of perfection but that perfect is off from what your dream client’s actual needs are, you’ll receive the same results from your launch. Crickets.

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Little Side Note

Are you stuck in the hamster wheel?

Read this post on procrastination, it will help.

The sound of crickets can be good

These crickets aren’t bad, they set the benchmark that you need to do some tweaking to align yourself with the actual problem that you’re trying to solve for your dream client with your course or service.

And…

Friend, remember that done is better than perfect and I encourage you to just launch it, tweak it, and launch it again. But with a launch plan and warming up your audience of course. Don’t forget those steps.

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